The 1st Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference on Telomere & Telomerase will be held in Suzhou from Sept. 5 to 9, 2016. Ming Lei, director of National Center for Protein Science Shanghai, SIBCB, SIBS, CAS, is one of the organizing committee members.

Suzhou Dushu Lake Conference Center

2016-09-05

The 1st Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference on Telomere & Telomerase will be held in Suzhou from Sept. 5 to 9, 2016. Ming Lei, director of National Center for Protein Science Shanghai, SIBCB, SIBS, CAS, is one of the organizing committee members.

The conference includes eight oral sessions and one poster session covering the latest findings across various topics in the field of telomere and telomerase. For more information please click:http://www.csh-asia.org/2016meetings/TELO.html

Major Topics:

1. Telomere, telomerase and human diseases

2. Repair of dysfunctional telomeres

3. Telomere recombination and ALT

4. Telomere replication

5. Telomere length homeostasis and telomerase recruitment

6. TERRA, telomere proteins and telomerase

7. Structure of telomeres and telomerase

Keynote Speakers:

Jerry Shay, UT Southwestern Medical Center, USA

Invited Speakers:

Mary Armanios, Johns Hopkins University, USA

Steven Artandi, Stanford School of Medicine, USA

Abraham Aviv, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, USA

Tracy Bryan, Children's Medical Research Institute, AUSTRALIA

Sandy Chang, Yale School of Medicine, USA

Kathleen Collins, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Anabelle Decottignies, Catholic University of Louvain, BELGIUM

Juli Feigon, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Miguel Ferreira, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia, PORTUGAL

Vincent Geli, Research Center of Cancerology of Marseille, Inserm, France

Eric Gilson, University of Nice, France

Roger Greenberg, The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, USA